Category Archives: user exit

We hosted the Learning Lab of the sharedserviceslink Conference – VAT compliance through SAP Control – in London November 19-21, 2014 on the topic ‘cross border movements in SAP’. The objective was to facilitate and share knowledge on SAP and … Continue reading →

Every feature developed by Taxmarc™ improves indirect tax performance of SAP in a specific area. For example the time stamped tax code solution prevents that a company ever runs out of tax codes. During our design phase the performance should … Continue reading →

Our features realize automated VAT determination based on real time data for incoming and outgoing invoices even for the most complex transactions. Because the decision tree of Taxmarc™ is integrated in SAP as part of the Tax Control Framework, SAP … Continue reading →

If full ‘VAT automation of Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP)’ and ‘being in control’ are objectives of your organization, it is important to know what exactly makes Standard SAP not functioning optimal from an indirect tax perspective. Only … Continue reading →

Standard SAP VAT determination logic and functionality do not work for complex dynamic business models. The root cause is that both Standard SAP and bold-on tax engines exclusively focus on transactions within a single company; it only assesses the underlying … Continue reading →

Business challenge The purchase order (PO) and the vendor invoice are the VAT relevant data sources used to determine the VAT treatment of incoming invoices. However, the vendor invoice data is in general not available in SAP. However, in order … Continue reading →

Taxmarc™ provides a SAP VAT add-on solution that ensures that for every transaction the correct VAT treatment can be determined, adds VAT logic to SAP when standard SAP is not sufficient and is fully integrated in SAP and focused to meet … Continue reading →

From 1 July 2018, taxpayers are as stated earlier obliged to provide within 24 hours invoice data for domestic transactions with a minimum VAT amount of 100,000 HUF (322 EUR).Although we offer a fully SAP-integrated solution in SAP itself to submit required data in an automated way, it is essential to review whether the data in SAP itself is correct and comp […]

From 1 July 2018, taxpayers are as stated earlier obliged to provide within 24 hours invoice data for domestic transactions with a minimum VAT amount of HUF 100,000 (322 EUR). The ERP system must be able to detect sales invoices meeting reporting requirements: the minimum VAT amount. To be able to comply with the requirements and provide the data on in time, […]

To speed up the joint processing and analysis of data within Eurofisc, the Commission is currently developing TNA software for voluntary use by the Member States as of 2018.In order to maximise TNA’s potential to identify fraudulent networks across the whole EU, Regulation (EU) No 904/2010 would make clearer provision for the joint processing and analysis of […]

According to the Commission's proposals, VAT will now be charged on cross-border trade between businesses. Currently, this type of trade is exempt from VAT, providing an easy loophole for unscrupulous companies to collect VAT and then vanish without remitting the money to the government.It will be simpler for companies that sell cross-border to deal wi […]

The fierce debate on a fair distribution of tax revenues by governments has reached new heights. Tax shift due to risk allocation of transactions to low tax rate countries and even globalization itself are under political discussion.Protectionism is an important part of the strategic objectives of certain governments. Additionally, the discussion concerning […]

Tax authorities are besides optimizing traditional tax reporting systems increasingly implementing in addition electronic (almost) 'real-time' transaction reporting systems. It is expected that tax authorities due to technological innovations become increasingly better and faster in executing their tax audit.Complementary to the existing and more t […]

The critical conditions for successThe importance of indirect tax has increased over the last couple of years. While the rates for direct tax, corporate income tax, are decreasing, the rates for indirect tax keep rising. At multinational companies we’re easily talking about amounts of over 5 billion euros of indirect tax flowing through the books.According t […]

The Governments of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar (status unknown due to GCC politics/friction), Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that make up GCC - are committed to form a common framework for the introduction of value added tax (VAT) in the region. In order to achieve conformity within the GCC, it is anticipated […]

SNI SAP-ZUGFERD is a SAP certified SAP add-on enabling electronic invoice exchange including structured data in an efficient way. ZUGFeRD is an abbreviate for »Zentraler User Guide des Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland«. It is a new invoicing standard that will play a major role in efficient and effective electronic invoicing. ZUGFeRD invoices carry b […]

Many countries nowadays implement the BEPS recommendations such as the ‘master’ and ‘local’ file and the ‘Country-by-Country’ report. In general, this not only leads to an aggravation of Transfer Pricing (hereafter: TP) compliance activities, but also results in the potential discovery of errors that were previously undetectable. Indeed, TP processes are gen […]

In an increasing number of countries, laws and regulations are established that force companies to be transparent with regard to their handling of tax risks, (fiscal) risk management, risk appetite – also in relation to tax planning – and the way of dealing with tax authorities.This concerns the actual fiscal management, including the way in which the compan […]

A partnership is closed between the Key Group, SNI and the international operating SAP consultancy firm 'ConVista Consulting' with offices amongst others in Madrid and Barcelona. Key Group and SNI operate from Netherlands, Poland and Turkey.Who we areIn order to establish synergies to support business SAP challenges of our clients we have setup a j […]

The term materiality has many meanings and definitions. Boundaries of materiality are primarily determined based on personal estimations. This can be estimations by auditors, risk management departments, company directors, etc.The term materiality, used as a quantitative norm, then serves as an approval boundary. Evidently, the materiality used to determine […]

Tax moral is shifting. More often what is (still) legally allowed may not automatically be accepted by the public opinion. Reputational damage is imminent.Both on direct and indirect taxation the tax authorities have set their priorities. The tax authorities not only want to receive more tax data, but also faster and more often. In addition, there is a tende […]

We offer a new SAP add-on solution that creates automatically the VAT Smartform from SAP. When our SAF-T SAP add-on solution has been purchased this additional functionality will be managed under SAF-T cockpit as a different report.Companies selling across European Union borders have to submit EC Sales List (ESL). This should contain the details of sales or […]

In Spain a new VAT reporting system will enter into force on the 1st of July 2017. The new Spanish requirements will have a huge impact on many (multi)nationals that run SAP. SAP add on for SIIThe SAP add-on is based on the selection of the VAT relevant transactions from the SAP ledgers. This can be done manually with a new SAP transaction or in an automated […]

Richard Cornelisse

I advise multinational businesses in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their Indirect Tax Function and Tax Control Framework. I started my career as a manager at Arthur Andersen and then became a partner in EY where I led the indirect tax performance team for Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am a senior managing director of Phenix Consulting.
I have over 20 years’ experience advising clients on international VAT issues. I am specialized in the tax aspects of financial transformations, shared service centre migration, and post merger integration work.
I am also somewhat of a mentor, giving back to the profession. If you are interested in conversation and discussion, please feel free to contact me.